This performance category measures participation in activities that improve clinical practice. Requirements may change each Performance Year (PY) due to policy changes, and for 2019 your requirements will be 15% of the final score. This percentage can change due...
Let’s take a look at Quality Measures requirements. This performance category measures health care processes, outcomes, and patient experiences of their care. Remember that requirements have changed and will most likely continue to change each Performance...
Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is a hot topic in the medical field right now. These incentives allow clinicians to make more money from their Medicare billing efforts if they can prove that they are giving better care to their patients. MIPS is a program...
In this post, we will go over a theoretical case involving a patient who was moved into a long-term care facility. There are various issues we created for this case; however, the biggest problem was answering the question, “Can you bill Chronic Care Management...
A Brief History of The QPP and Why it Was Created Prior to the Quality Payment Program (QPP), payment increases for Medicare services were set by the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) law. SGR put a cap on spending increases in relation to growth in the...
